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Is cursive writing dead?
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Posted on 06/28/2013 1:29:33 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: TigerClaws
When asked if she could read a letter in court, witness Rachel Jeantel, her head bowed, murmured with embarrassment, "I don't read cursive," according to court testimony.

The elephant in the room that CBS ignored is that, if the witness can't read it, she must not have written it.

Matter of fact, by making the issue cursive handwriting, they get to bury the fact that Benjamin Crump wrote that letter for her.

21 posted on 06/28/2013 1:37:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have known that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional news?)
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To: TigerClaws
This non-debate is typical of the kind of crap we have to put up with when commentators refuse to cut to the chase: If handwriting is legible, ANY person of modest capacity who can read is able to read it (yes, as somebody else said, "it's just another font.")

The bottom line is that a dim-witted perjurer could NOT READ AT ALL. Look at her testimony on the previous day when she is handed typewritten exhibit after exhibit and clearly has NO idea what they say. "I can't read cursive" is baloney. She can't read, and the defense clearly knew this when they asked her to read the letter she'd supposedly written.

22 posted on 06/28/2013 1:37:14 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
No but a punk thug violent attacker is.

That wins a nomination for post of the day.

23 posted on 06/28/2013 1:37:29 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: willywill
I wonder how in the heck she knew the word.

Five years in 7th grade.

24 posted on 06/28/2013 1:37:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Neither will Holder’s people, so you’ll be fined or imprisoned for discrimination...


25 posted on 06/28/2013 1:37:51 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: TigerClaws

I was truly shocked she knew what the word cursive meant. Sort of like using the term niggardly.


26 posted on 06/28/2013 1:38:05 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Secret Agent Man

Dead on.


27 posted on 06/28/2013 1:38:23 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: TigerClaws

If our culture is depending on the US Education system to teach it then yes,,yes it is


28 posted on 06/28/2013 1:39:54 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: k4gypsyrose

There probably be an app for that . . . .


29 posted on 06/28/2013 1:40:26 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: bigheadfred
I remember getting an HP Deskjet 500 for my kidz.

It was great.

30 posted on 06/28/2013 1:40:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TigerClaws

So signing a contract in the future will be done in print letters?


31 posted on 06/28/2013 1:41:17 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
....... if the witness can't read it, she must not have written it.

Doh!

32 posted on 06/28/2013 1:41:33 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ("Obama" The Movie. Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica." .)
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To: TigerClaws

If you write in a language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet, you’ll use cursive writing because manuscript would be too slow.


33 posted on 06/28/2013 1:41:39 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: discostu

I’m guessing you approve of the demise?


34 posted on 06/28/2013 1:42:12 PM PDT by Borges
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To: TigerClaws
I have some students in my 7th grade class that can not read or write cursive.

I have actually proposed making it into an after school activity, so the kids can learn it.

Many really do want to be able to read and write it.

Some of the kids asked me why it is important to learn it, and I told them if they had any desire to read documents in their original text, they will need to learn it.

35 posted on 06/28/2013 1:42:28 PM PDT by mware
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To: TigerClaws
FWIW, in my adventures in substituting, I found myself with a prep period and nothing much to do. I chanced upon an old, old cursive writing book on a shelf. I spent that prep period practicing cursive.

I was astounded how much writing cursive did to encourage the flow of thoughts. Once it's on paper, in pen, it's there, and besides those thoughts, it conveys style and cohesiveness. It was a real good intellectual exercise.

It would've done that witness in the Zimmerman case some good.

36 posted on 06/28/2013 1:42:46 PM PDT by grania
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To: TigerClaws

I’m embarassed to say that I’ve started to forget how to write in cursive. I tried not too long ago and made so many mistakes it wasn’t funny


37 posted on 06/28/2013 1:42:50 PM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: TigerClaws

Well if that happens, cursive could become the new way to code messages you don’t want some people and machines to read.


38 posted on 06/28/2013 1:43:05 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: Spruce
My mother, a South Dakota farm girl, has the most exquisitely beautiful handwriting.
Mine did too. Back in the 50s, I'd bring a note into school excusing my absence and without fail, my teachers would always comment on her penmanship.
Then they'd look at me and ask why mine was so bad. Sigh ...
39 posted on 06/28/2013 1:43:14 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: TigerClaws

...as were court records and land conveyances.


40 posted on 06/28/2013 1:43:43 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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